The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-05

N. Whitley, the great reaper manu-
facturer, committed suicide in Spring.
field. Ohio, on the 31st ult., by shooting
himself.
"A despatch from Sturgeon Bay,
Wisconsin, says the schooner Pomeroy
passed through the bay on the LIST, hav-
Ing on board Alfred Stone. of Chicago,
one Of the crew and the only known
survivor of those on board the propeller
Vernon. which was wrecked on Lake
Michigan on the night of the 2Sth ult.
He had been in the water on a raft
sixty hours. exposed to a bitter, pierre
ing wind, with nothing to eat. He
said he was awakened IN the middle Of
the night by the cries Of the passengers
and crew that the vessel was sinking.
He sprang out Of the window and
alighted on a life raft with six other
persons. 1t seemed only q moment be-
fore the vessel went down. He thought
the number of persons on board could
not have been far from fifty. Two
vessels passed rear them on the Goth
nlt., but made no effort to reach them.
He did not see any others from the
sunken steamer, and don't believe any
others survived. The vessel went down
so suddenly that the crew hadn't time
to man the boats.
The total coinage Of the u. 8.
MINIS during October amounted in
value to 80, 563 $3.50, including 3.450, 900
standard dollars.
"A gasoline explosion, followed by
fire, occurred early on the morning Of
the list in the cellar of the grocery
store of Michael Newman, III st. Louis.
The grocery, a two story brick build
ing, and these adjoining were demol-
ished, and thirteen persons, including
the wife and five children of Newman,
and two families living In the other
houses, were buried in the ruins.
When the flames were extinguished
and all were rescued 1t was found that
eight were dead and three seriously in
Jured. Besides those injured in the
building in which the explosion &C.
CURED many persons IN the ne'ghbor-
hood were more or less cut and bruised
by flying splinters and bricks. For
several blocks on either side of the
streets the conclusion shattered the
windows, and in the immediate vicinity,
Cd the opposite side of the way, the
fronts of buildings were demolished,
and scarcely a door or window remains.
Walls cracked, floors gave way and
plaster fell in almost every house within
a radius of a hundred yards.
"A telegram from Albuquerque,
New Mexico, says intelligence has just
been received from San Pedro county
Of the murder Of Jose Gutierrez, Major
Domo Of the Loaquade Ranch, a sheep
ranch, by a gang Of cowboys. A party
Of ten armed MeXicans has started for
the Q and more trouble is expected.
Mrs. Cedilate, ler brother, Joseph
Parker, and her son, Frederick, aged
IA years, living in Cincinnati, were
poisoned by arsenic IN a cranberry pie on
the 31st ult. Mrs. Parker, 60 years old,
the mother of Mrs. Cedilate, was ar
rested on the LIST, on the charge of hav-
ing administered the poison. Mrs.
Cedilate's husband died of poisoning
last Christmas. The family will re-
cover. Alfred Hahn went to Chicago,
on the LIST, and identified the remalns
Of the man found murdered in a car
riage on a freight car as those OF his
brother, Frank Hahn. He left with
the body on the evening of the LIST, for
Rochester.
Nearly all the guests at a dance
and supper in Delhi, La, on the even
ing Of the 23th ult., were poisoned by
something in the food. Seven have
since died, and nearly thirty others,
men, women and children, are dagger
Ously sick. 1t is not known how the
poison got in the food.
The public debt statement, issued
on the LIST, shoAs a reduction of $780,
a33,695 during October. The total
cash in the Treasury is $497, 1888, POI.
During October there was ali increase
OF $10, 141, 1856 in the net gold In the
Treasury, and an increase Of 81, 224,
264 In the circulation of the silver dol.
lars.
The dead body of q girl was dis
covered in a box at the railroad depot
In Des MONIES, Iowa, on the 31st ult.
1t had been placed in a common box
and checked through as baggage. In
vestlgation proved the corpse to be the
body Of Katie Dunn, 10 years of age,
who died In st. Joseph, a few days ago.
The COroner's inquest developed the
fact that the box containing the body
had been shipped from Charlton, by
DR.. Gillespie, Of Des Moines. He was
placed under arrest. He says he re-
ceived it from u man he did not know.
There were four new cases of yell
low fever and two deaths at Tampa,
Florida, on the LIST. A very slight
frost is reported there. Father Swem-
burgh, a Catholic priest, who took the
place Of Father Peterman. who died
last week, has also died.
Several Of the night miners at the
Chamberlain COlliery, at Shenandoah,
Pa, were ascending in the elevator
on the morning Of the LIST. when some
part Of the machinery broke, dropping
the car to the bottom. Moses Thorn
ton was instantly killed and another
man badly injured. j. r. Gloninger,
a prominent business man of Pitts
burg, vas run over and killed by o
railroad train on the morning of the
1st. He was 80 years of age. Ar en-
9ine exploded neal Hack Berry, CALI
fornia, on the evening Of the 3lst, kill
ling Engineer Schroeder, Fireman
Long and brakeman Trap. Willie
Herbert, 8 years of age on the LIST shot
and killed his seven-year.old sister,
while playing with a shot gun, IN Bor-
dentown, Lackawanna county, Psnna.
In South Wilkesbarre, on the LIST,
the Lehigh and Wilksbarre Coal Com.
pany, after years of labor and an ex-
pendIture Of nearly $l00. 000, struck the
great baltimore vein" of coal nearly
HOO feet below the surface. This is
the deepest shaft in Pennsylvania. The
vein is from 10 to 20 feet in thickness,
and it is said. will ret the company
full y IS. 600. COO.
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